Donald Trump said Wednesday that conservative columnist George Will is a washed-up nobody who nobody reads.
“Well, George is a major loser,” Trump told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Wednesday morning. “You know, he’s a dour guy. Nobody watches him. Very few people listen to him. It’s over for him and I never want his support.”
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Trump’s comments are in response to Will’s April 29 column in the Washington Post titled: “If Trump is nominated, the GOP must keep him out of the White House.”
According to Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, Will’s sentiment against him began years ago at his own Mar-a-Lago Florida estate.
“You know, I had a run-in with him when I was in civilian life. I didn’t wanna go to one of his speeches at Mar-a-Lago. He made a speech at Mar-a-Lago, and I find him to be a very boring person. You know, he’s boring and dull, and I didn’t go to the speech,” Trump explained.
“I said I just don’t wanna go, and he wanted me to go,” Trump added. “And I just, you know, it was one of those things. I had something else to do. He never forgot it, and he’s a nasty guy. He’s a very nasty guy. But I have to tell you this: Nobody reads him, he has no influence.”
Trump said he doesn’t know how often Will writes columns, but that “the guy writes a bad column every time he writes a column.”
Trump’s win in the Indiana primary Tuesday all but makes it official he will clinch the GOP presidential nomination ahead of the party’s July convention.
